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Obama, Hitler, And Exploding The Biggest Lie In History

“The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.” John T. Flynn

Numerous commentators have raised alarming comparisons between America’s recent economic foibles and Argentina’s fall “from breadbasket to basket case.” The U.S. pursues a similar path with her economy increasingly ensnared under the growing nexus of government control. Resources are redistributed for vote-buying welfare schemes, patronage style earmarks, and graft by unelected bureaucrats, quid pro quo with unions, issue groups and legions of lobbyists.

In Argentina, everyone acknowledges that fascism, state capitalism, corporatism – whatever – reflects very leftwing ideology. Eva Peron remains a liberal icon. President Obama’s Fabian policies (Keynesian economics) promise similar ends. His proposed infrastructure bank is just the latest gyration of corporatism. Why then are fascists consistently portrayed as conservatives?

In the Thirties, intellectuals smitten by progressivism considered limited, constitutional governance anachronistic. The Great Depression had apparently proven capitalism defunct. The remaining choice had narrowed between communism and fascism. Hitler was about an inch to the right of Stalin. Western intellectuals infatuated with Marxism thus associated fascism with the Right.

Later, Marxists from the Frankfurt School popularized this prevailing sentiment. Theodor Adorno in The Authoritarian Personality devised the “F” scale to demean conservatives as latent fascists. The label “fascist” has subsequently meant anyone liberals seek to ostracize or discredit.

Fascism is an amorphous ideology mobilizing an entire nation (Mussolini, Franco and Peron) or race (Hitler) for a common purpose. Leaders of industry, science, education, the arts and politics combine to shepherd society in an all encompassing quest. Hitler’s premise was a pure Aryan Germany capable of dominating Europe.

While he feinted right, Hitler and Stalin were natural bedfellows. Hitler mimicked Lenin’s path to totalitarian tyranny, parlaying crises into power. Nazis despised Marxists not over ideology, but because they had betrayed Germany in World War I and Nazis found it unconscionable that German communists yielded fealty to Slavs in Moscow.

The National Socialist German Workers Party staged elaborate marches with uniformed workers calling one another “comrade” while toting tools the way soldiers shoulder rifles. The bright red Nazi flag symbolized socialism in a “classless, casteless” Germany (white represents Aryanism). Fascist central planning was not egalitarian, but it divvied up economic rewards very similarly to communism: party membership and partnering with the state.

Where communists generally focused on class, Nazis fixated on race. Communists view life through the prism of a perpetual workers’ revolution. National Socialists used race as a metaphor to justify their nation’s engagement in an existential struggle.

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americanamerican holding the Founding Fathers in high esteem as Exceptionalist Individual American Patriotic Icons of Freedom, Liberty and Equality in the face of the facts they kidnapped, raped, tortured, murdered, enslaved with impunity only serves to set a double standard for Freedom, Liberty and Equality.

There is no getting around the truth, you ignore, attempt to justify and minimized the atrocities committed by the Founders.

I believe that those who do not understand the socialist desire to plan our lives for us by engaging in “social enginnering” (no thanks) will find this article eye-opening. Its true Hitler was a racist socialist and Keynes was an advocate and cheerleader of the fascist economic model. Hitler was to the right of Marx in that he was a racist bigot.Yet his movement was that of a racist socialist. Bigotry is a form of ignorance and immaturity yet the GREATER evil in reality is the POWER and the VIOLATION of life and liberty which FASCISTS OF ALL STRIPES, which includes the full scope and spectrum socialists and socialism. They promise a new and better change as long as we expand the power of government over our lives -yet none has been demonstrated to be more scientifically or economically advanced than that of the American limited government free economy entrepreneurial model which allows the most efficient and PRODUCTIVE and generative results, not to mention the most adult-oriented arrangement, which with all due respect to our would be philosopher kings who want to improve our lives for our own good (thus engaging in perpetual coercion of their own FELLOW citizens) throughthe “social engineering” by an intrusive and radical “government” which cannot stop with just one inevitably wasteful and failed measure of intervention but must demand one after another to follow and attempt to rescuethe preceding one ( see Zwangswirtschaft and Middle of the Road Policy Leads To Socialism by Ludwig von Mises). This is Obama’s fascist course. Another article I would mention is Keynes and the Reds by prof. Ralph Rico which also mentions the Fabians, a couple of which published a pro-Soviet tome which Keynes endorsed at the time, along with Mussolini and the Nazi’s brave experiments in social engineering. -CHRISTOPHER SUFLE freemarketcircle.blogspot.com

lol. You know who the last con to limit the size of the govt was? Eisenhower, over 60 years ago. Not Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, limited the size of the federal govt. In fact Reagan doubled the size and Bush II grew it enormously. This all invasive big brother government was greatly expanded under Bush II. The same party that saves they favor limited govt is the same party that enacted programs that spied on millions of americans! The Big Con-servative Lie

I appreciate the comments, but people are way over thinking this thing. The only reason the word Fascist is even mentioned now-a-days, is that the Republicans are trying to win back the house and senate and the Presidency in 2012. Fox and MSNBC are doing a huge disservice to this country with their political posturing.

We are a shameful nation that cators to big business. We have this thought procees that without huge corporations or banks, we will be nothing. Here is Apple, with some ungodly amount of money in the bank, yet they continue to have all of their hardware made overseas. Companies like Enron are run into the ground, taking with it the liverlyhood of their employees jobs and pensions. Do I dare mention GM, Chrysler, Citibank, AIG, BofA, etcc.. The list goes on with corporate greed run amuck.

Republicans want to remove unions. The Democrats want to slap new laws on big business to keep them from screwing up.

Until we elect the appropriate people who are for the American worker, and not the American dollar, we will continue to decline as a great nation.

The only two Republicans from your list that I like are Reagan and Bush 43. The other ones not so much – they were COMPROMISE candidates.. really history will separate the wheat from the chaff. In the long run. Now how much chaff we pick up along the way and lug around needlessly, well thats always up to us and sometimes you are not born to a very intelligent society.

There wasn’t as much of a pro-limited government and free market movement as the Tea Party of today which is moving the country back to her founding constitutioanl principles and fiscal responsibility. Really, president Reagan by himself was IT. And he followed after B Goldwater, studying free market economics along the way and fighting Keynesianism and Communism which helped America recover from the Carter era.

But all these presidents, including Reagan and Bush made many compromises and concessions with the National Socialist Democrat party which didn’t help very much.

I remember President Bush calling for regulations and accounting reforms for Government Sponsored Entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which, the same kind of oversight measures and kinds of agencies which are there and apply to private firms and business corporations but the crazy democrats and their majority in Congress would have none of it so Jamie Gorelik and Frank Raines, with their accounting tricks and misleading of everyone, brought down the mortgage industry and made out like bandits while they were at it, except they were not prosecuted as they were exempted and didnt play by the same rules that everyone else did – such is socialist oligarchy and funny money. Look up Crime Punished and Unpunished, available on powerlineblog by John Hinderaker and then look up Bush warning Congress about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on YouTube and u will see Barny Frank and others lying to America and promising there will be no meltdown or bailouts.

The Democrat party is hopelessly lost to the socialist madness which is bankrupting these United States and her federal government.

Look at the facts look at the numbers:

I’m quoting Michael Medved here:

“In W’s first six years, with his GOP allies dominating Capitol Hill, Bush deficits averaged 1.91 PERCENT OF THE GDP — well below the 60-year postwar average. AFTER HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF., and SEN. MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID, D-NEV brought their free-spending ways to House and Senate, DEFICITS SOARED TO A DANGEROUS 4.74 PERCENT over the next two years — and continued to skyrocket to a projected (and appaling) 10.27 PERCENT FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF OBAMA.”

As for the spying of millions of Americans, please tell me what the heck you are talking about I would really appreciate it. I assume that you are talking about the Patriot Act, and believe it gives UNWARRANTED directives/instructions to the government: can you cite any specific parts that you don’t like. I’m sure you do since you believe it authorizes spying on Americans. I think if Al Qaeda is making phone calls to the U.S. the government should be allowed to tap and trace who those calls are being made to, whether it is on cell phones pay phones or via computer communications. I wish president Bush was back I know old women, cripples and children wouldn’t be manhandled the way they are today at airports the way this administration disgracefully permits.

And on top of that Guantanamo is still open and al Obama is bombing another country and did so without consulting with or getting authority from Congress FOR MONTHS after the fact.

So if you hated Bush for violating the constitution on grounds that al Qaeda’s phone calls to the United States should remain private – and wanted revenge by voting for Obama or if you believe that corporate cronyism monopolies and are bad and support the fascist big govt. big business good ol’ boy economic model of Obama then you are quite the genius truth lover aren’t you.

The belt I wear to work is my way of explaining the relationship of fascism and communism. The belt is totalitarian tyranny which joins the two in a continuum. Most fascists and communists don’t want you to realize that the belt is a continuum and therefore they hide their similarities in the background. Just run your finger about the belt, and you arrive at the other end. The apparent difference between the two is only because the buckle of liberty juxtaposes their seeming distinctions. Without personal liberty to separate them, they are alike. The believer in individual liberty needs to understand that individual worth is an anathema to both, and that sidling up to one is endorsing both through their shared continuum.

While communism has killed multiple more humans than fascism, and continues to subjugate hundreds of millions, communism has won in propaganda since WW II as planting the perception that being fascist is despicably worse than being communist. As this conceit is perpetuated, individual liberties are seemingly attacked from disparate forces, and will usually lean toward the communist position, while recoiling from the fascist stance. Better would be the separation from both, so that a clear case for the individual’s worth would not be mixed with the subterfuge of either form of totalitarian tyranny.

You nailed it. The lefties are all fascists. Since Jonah Goldberg published Liberal Fascism, they’ve been fuming and foaming at the mouth with rage at being found out. Just look at the letters from the left below.

Let’s see Fascists support : Militarism, Nationalism, Rampant Sexism, Corporations and having Religious Leaders back the government. Fascists oppose Labor Unions, Intellectuals, the Arts, and Human Rights. So Fascists are Liberals….